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H. E. WEBSTER.

ICE CARD HOLDER.

APPLICATION man Aue.21. 1919.

Patented N (W. 25, 1919.

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' ICE-CARD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

Application filed August 27, 1919. Serial No. 320,275.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. WEBSTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Warren, in the county of Trumbull, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Card Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and us the same.

This invention relates to holders for cards, such as are employed to instruct the ice man as to the quantity of ice to be delivered, the object of the invention being to provide an article that will be very simple and cheap of manufacture, which will permit the setting of the ice card readily and which will hold the card securely. A further object of the invention is to provide a construction that may be hooked over a support or may be engaged with spaced studs to hold it in its active position.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the article engaged with spaced studs and having the position of the supported card, indicated in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder, showing its hook engaged with a supporting plate.

Referring now to the drawings the present holder consists of a singleheavy resilient wire that is bent upon itself to form the side members 5 and 6 and the connecting bight portion 7. The side members directly adjacent the bight, are spaced considerably apart and are then wound helically upon each other as shown at 8, then again spaced apart as shown at 9 to form an eye and then again wound helically one upon the other for a greater distance, as shown at 10. The portion 10 is bent in a plane at right angles to the eye 9 and the eye 11 that is formed directly adjacent the bight 7, first away from the eye 9 and then curving toward it, after which it is continued in close relation to the portion 8 with a resultant hook. The last named wound portion terminates adjacent the base of the eye 11, from which the side members are diverged in a plane parallel with the eye 11 and then converged, with a resultant rectangular body portion 12. At the base angle of the body portion 12, the side members are} wound helically each upon the other a short distance and then are continued laterally and upwardly in opposite directions as shown at 13 and 14, substantially parallel with the lower side of the rectangular body. The sid members are then continued upwardly in mutual parallel relation as shown at 15 and 16, against the front faces of the body portion and above the top sides after which they are continued laterally in opposite directions as shown at 17 and 18 and then downwardly and divergently as shown at 19 and 20, against the front faces of the sides of the body portion.

The portions 15, 16, 19 and 20, constitute clamping arms that normally lie snugly against the front face of the body of the holder, to clamp between them a card 21, indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings and which card, when bent, rests upon the upwardly diverging portions 13 and 14.

In Fig. l-of the drawings the holder is shown engaged with a supporting block 22, through the medium of headed studs 23, that may be screws, and which studs are engaged in the eyes 9 and 11, the upper end portions of which latter are tapered so that their sides will take behind the heads of the studs. I

In Fig. 2 of the drawings the. holder is illustrated as having the stem of its hanger hook engaged behind a supporting plate 24 which is provided with a longitudinal co-rrugation 25 for the purpose.

What is claimed is:

1. A card holder consisting of a resilient wire, the central portion of which includes spaced tapered eyes and. an intervening twisted portion and the end portions of which wire constitutes an open body portion, clamping arms that overlie the body portion and laterally extending members connecting the lower ends of the arms with the bottom of the body portion.

2. A card holder consisting of a resilient wire, the central portion of which includes a hook having a bill including spaced tapered eyes, the wire end portions at the In testimony whereof, I afiix my signafree end of the 1stefiri of the hook 1extending ture in the presence of two witnesses. divergingly 2111c t en converging with a resultant clamping body and theli extend- V HENRY EMMOR WEBSTER ing below the body, then laterally and op- Witnesses: I

positely below the body and then upwardly MABELLE G. DIEHL,

of and in clamping relation to the body. GEORGE MOSER. 

